2020 08 31 Open NEST Developer Video Conference
- Welcome
- Review of NEST User Mailing List
- Project team round
- In-depth discussion
- the neuromodulatory synapse
Here we discuss topics that need broader attention, for example questions that came up but are outside a single project's scope, larger planned changes/PRs that affect all teams or pending work that is blocked by external factors.
- Models / NESTML
- most activity on https://github.com/nest/nestml
- working on NESTML 4.0, adding more documentation
- ODE toolbox development ongoing
- PR #1697 is open since long and requires high-level overview, reviewers assigned
- PyNEST
- lots of progress in the past two weeks
- no major things to discuss
- Kernel
- almost done refactoring modelsmodule conn_builder, some Python3 issues with CSA
- not yet started dissolving the topology module (-> separate VC)
- Installation
- still very limited number of developers on MacOS to test/review
- homebrew and conda don't mix well.
- Infrastructure
- nest-simulator.org server upload space is now available and could receive Travis build artifacts
- integration with Travis (configuration) still needs work
- Documentation
-
nest.help()need different mechanism for model documentation, instead of SLI help. - link to online documentation
- nest server API also could serve static HTML snippets
- NEST Conference HBP Press release
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- EBRAINS
- nothing major to report
- (Feature) Random number generation
- no updates yet
- (Feature) Automated Testing
- new people recruiting for working on test for STDP dopamine synapses
- issue #820 links to manual tests that were removed in a former PR as they were not suited for automated testing.
- new automated test are to be written
- discussed also a first/new test
- formed group of people to work on implementation of automated version of former manual tests. Further discussion will be in issue #820.
